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Scipione del Ferro

1465 - 1526

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Scipione del Ferro (6 February 1465 – 5 November 1526) was an Italian mathematician who first discovered a method to solve the depressed cubic equation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scipione del Ferro has received more than 86,519 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Scipione del Ferro is the 190th most popular mathematician (down from 129th in 2019), the 1,315th most popular biography from Italy (down from 940th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Italian Mathematician.

Scipione del ferro is most famous for his discovery of the law of the lever. The law of the lever states that when two objects are in equilibrium, the force needed to move one object is equal to the force needed to move the other object.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Scipione del Ferro ranks 190 out of 823. Before him are Theaetetus, Ibn Yunus, Paul Guldin, Vladimir Arnold, Al-Karaji, and Antoine Augustin Cournot. After him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Callippus, Marcel Grossmann, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Jan Łukasiewicz, and Richard von Mises.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1465, Scipione del Ferro ranks 5. Before him are Vittore Carpaccio, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Kunigunde of Austria, and Mehmed I Giray. After him are Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, Hans Holbein the Elder, Gil Vicente, Agostino Chigi, Paulo da Gama, Bramantino, and Jan Provoost. Among people deceased in 1526, Scipione del Ferro ranks 7. Before him are Louis II of Hungary, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Vittore Carpaccio, Isabella of Austria, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, and Emperor Go-Kashiwabara. After him are Rodrigo de Triana, Ibrahim Lodi, Elisabetta Gonzaga, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Shō Shin, and Francisco Hernández de Córdoba.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Scipione del Ferro ranks 1,315 out of 4,668. Before him are Frederick the Simple (1342), Norberto Bobbio (1909), Paolo Giovio (1483), Miuccia Prada (1949), Leonardo Leo (1694), and Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (1936). After him are Gioffre Borgia (1481), Gianna Nannini (1954), Timaeus of Locri (-200), Tito Gobbi (1913), Lambert of Italy (880), and Alessandro Valignano (1539).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Scipione del Ferro ranks 18. Before him are Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Aloysius Lilius (1510), Giambattista della Porta (1535), Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Rafael Bombelli (1526), and Vito Volterra (1860). After him are Paolo Ruffini (1765), Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Giovanni Ceva (1647), Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750), and Jacopo Riccati (1676).

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